Stages will be playing at DocuClub’s Works In Progress screening on Tuesday June 17, at 4:30pm.  This screening is presented as part of the best documentary film fest out there, SilverDocs. We are very honored and excited, to say the least!

Excerpted from DocuClub’s website:

DocuClub screenings: Stages

Still from Stages.

We are happy to announce that DocuClub will be holding a session at this year’s SILVERDOCS festival, in Washington DC/Silver Springs, Maryland. The session will be held on Tuesday, June 17, at 4:30 p.m, at the Round House Theater.

The featured film is Stages by the Meerkat Media Arts Collective. The film follows a group of older Puerto Rican women and youth of color who unite in New York City’s lower east side to create an original play based on their life stories. See a trailer of the film here.

The Meerkat Media Arts Collective is a New York-based interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to making media with a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative process. Less than three years old, the collective has produced over twenty short films, and has been featured in film festivals across the country and broadcast internationally. Their recent short about small-scale beekeepers and their vanishing hives, Every Third Bite, is part of the 2008 Media That Matters Film Festival. Stages, their first collaboratively-created feature length documentary, is co-written, directed and produced by a team of 12 people.

Our moderator will be Erica Ginsberg, who is the managing director of Docs In Progress, Inc., a film organization based in Silver Spring, Maryland. The organization serves as a resource for independent documentary filmmakers to help them create their films. Among Docs In Progress programs are work-in-progress screenings (held bi-monthly in Washington DC and annually in Baltimore, Maryland) and one-on-one sessions with individual filmmakers.

Stay tuned for more details about this exciting DocuClub event!